Monday, August 28, 2006

You want to create web pages? If you are not targeting a specific browser then you may want to make sure that your pages validate according to W3C. The validators are located at:HTML validator: http://validator.w3.org/CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/

You can add those links to your page (if it is available on the Internet) to do an automatic validation of your page:http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=refererhttp://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check?uri=referer

If the validation passes, W3C gives you some logos that you can add on your page.Why is it important? If you pages pass W3C validation that means:

The page is written in portable HTML and/or CSS which works on most browsers

Putting the W3C logos on your valid page is a marker of quality

You look smart ;)

OK, I'm joking with the last one, but there are other benefits too, I let you discover them.One more... using those validators you can find some very obscure but small mistakes so you can correct them.